Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoist. In Detroit, John Gremblewski prepared a poisoned ham sandwich, left it out for rats, later got hungry. He will recover...
...because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period-act; but an act is not acting and Novelist Bronte's Rochester is not meant to be amusing. For Cinemactor Welles to play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained...
...evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor. As he trudged up the aisle to his seat, with the conscious humility of a great performer, the House rose and gave him prolonged applause...
...Bulletin is a little larger than pocket-size, starts with news and comment (e.g., new uses for penicillin, announcement of a new plastic hospital tray or a course in dentistry, statistics on war dogs, report of an epidemic from ham, a note on horses' eyes). It goes on to special articles on standard procedures (e.g., a series on malaria) and original articles from army doctors everywhere. The brisk little Bulletin sells for $2 a year...
UNRRA looked to New York's brass-lunged Ham Fish like a "gigantic international WPA." Illinois's Jessie Sumner had figured out that the whole thing was a scheme to "make Stalin dictator of Europe." California's Bertrand W. Gearhart cried that it was unconstitutional. For these and other objections, Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee were ready with patient, sense-making answers...